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Volume 54, No. 2

B.C. Reg. 23/2011

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 8, 2011

B.C. Reg. 23/2011 , deposited February 3, 2011, pursuant to the UTILITIES COMMISSION ACT [Section 3]. Order in Council 15/2011, approved and ordered February 2, 2011.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that Special Direction No. 9 to the British Columbia Utilities Commission, B.C. Reg. 157/2005, is amended as follows.

Section 1 is repealed and the following substituted:

Definition

1 In this Special Direction, "Act" means the Utilities Commission Act .

2 Sections 3 to 6 are repealed and the following substituted:

Government objective

2.1

(1) In deciding whether to issue to a public utility other than the authority a certificate in respect of an electricity transmission project under

section 46 (3) of the Act, the commission must consider, in addition to the matters referred to in

section 46 (3.1) of the Act, the government's objective of encouraging public utilities to develop adequate electricity transmission infrastructure in the time required to serve persons who receive or may receive service from the public utility.

(2) In deciding whether to issue to the authority a certificate in respect of an electricity transmission project under

section 46 (3) of the Act, the commission must consider and be guided by, in addition to the matters referred to in

section 46 (3.3) of the Act, the government's objective referred to in subsection (1) of this section.

— B. PENNER, Attorney General ; M. POLAK, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

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